2014年4月29日 · The Leardo map of the world, 1452 or 1453 : in the collections of the American geographical society. The Society has ... undertaken the publication of a full-sized colored facsimile (of the Leardo map) in explanation of which the present book was prepared -...

THE LEARDO MAP OF THE WORLD 1452 OR 1453 In 1906 Archer M. Huntington, Esq., presented to the American Geographical Society one of three known maps of the world signed and dated by the Venetian, Giovanni Leardo.

In 1928 the society published a full-size color facsimile and an accompanying text by John K. Wright, The Leardo Map of the World: 1452 or 1453. Wright’s work was essentially a detailed …

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453In the Collections of the American Geographical Society

Among the existing maps dating from the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries our Leardo map is very closely related to the group of maps drawn by the famous Catalan cartographers of Majorca in the Balearic Islands.

World Map. Manuscript. Venice, 1452 or 1453. Facsimile. New York, American Geographical Society, 1928. 72.4 x 59.4 cm. A planisphere centered on Jerusalem, with east at the top of the map, the ocean encircling the land mass of Europe, Asia, and Africa. A …

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2021年3月31日 · Leonardo da Vinci’s world map was found among his documents in the Royal Library (Windsor), one of the first to name the Americas and has the continents’ proper overall configuration. At that period, a wide variety of projective practices tried to represent the globe’s curved surface onto a sheet of paper’s planar surface.

2025年3月10日 · The Leardo Mappamundi, a hand-drawn map of the world from 1452, is one of the star items in the collection of the American Geographical Society Library, which has been housed at UWM for nearly 50 years.

2016年11月9日 · "The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453" by John Kirtland Wright is a historical account written in the early 20th century. This publication focuses on an analysis and presentation of an early world map created by the Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo, reflecting the geographical knowledge of the early Renaissance period.